Ace bandages, and Things Ain’t Lookin’ To Good For Josh

Posted on March 9, 2011 by admin

Hello again! How is everybody this morning? I’d like to welcome you back to Ridin Out the Recession in Miz Judi’s Kitchen!

I see Deb’s told you a couple tales of our son, “Red’s,” growin’ up days! Man, I don’t know how much longer we could’ve taken that young’un! I know she’s told you guys before, but I swear that child wrote the book on “Premature Parental Graying, and Redistributing Your Parents Wealth Via Emergency Rescue Services!” Dennis the Menace looked like Mother Teresa next to Red!

Since she’s told you about his infatuation of cruising up and down the country side, while paramedics hover over him checking his vital signs, I’m assuming just to “test out their equipment,” all on my dime of course, I see no reason of changing the subject matter at this point!
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Southwest Chicken Casserole, Corn Pudding

Posted on March 9, 2011 by admin

These two recipes are once more from the Church Cookbook, of the church that Shelly Mae attends. Actually, it looks to me as if most of these men and women are pretty good up over a cook stove! I asked Deb yesterday to see if she could find out from Shelly Mae when they might be havin’ dinner on the grounds? It just might be worth a little drive!
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Food Dehydrators

Posted on March 8, 2011 by admin

Good morning once more, and welcome to Coverin’ the Bases! We’re Dub and Deb, and would like to say thanks for droppin’ back in to visit with us!

Help Us Out…Food Dehydrators:

Today, right off the bat, I’d like to ask our readers a question and would appreciate any input you guys have in this regard.
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Shelby Lynn and Nana

Posted on March 7, 2011 by admin

Welcome back to Ridin’ Out the Recession. I hope everybody’s doing good this morning! I feel just great myself today thank you! Why don’t you guys come on in and pull up a chair, and let’s get started.

Shelby Lynn and Nana:

Our granddaughter, Shelby spent the night with us last night. She’ll be four in April. We don’t call her Shelby, we call her Shelby Lynn, and I guess she’s hung with that for life, at least in regards to her Nana and Poppa!

That little girl is a mess. She’s red-headed like her Dad Mark was when he was little, but his hair turned much more, brown tinted as he grew older. I still call him Red to this day. I slip up every once in a while and call him Mark, then I get mad when he doesn’t respond. He tells me, “How do I know you were talking to me? You call me Red!” He does have a point.
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Recipes, Peanut Butter Fudge, Dixie Pie

Posted on March 7, 2011 by admin

You know, I shared with you guys last time, that our daughter-in-law Shelly Mae had let us borrow her cook book put together from their Church. I’d like to continue this today.

One of the reasons for this is that it literally is a timesaver. I told Deb just this morning about this. She asked what I meant by…being I time saver? I then explained, it’s pretty simple really, that by these recipes coming from Shelly Mae’s Church, then in fact this food had already been blessed. With that being the case, when you sit down to eat there wasn’t really a great need for the prayer…the food had already been blessed!
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How to make butter

Posted on March 7, 2011 by admin

In regards to: Raised bed Gardening

From: Kunoichi
“Make butter by putting some “half and half” milk in a jar, salt to taste, put the lid on and shake the jar “

I’ve never tried with half and half; I don’t think it would have enough fat in it to make butter.  Use whipping cream.  You can shake it in a jar (filled to a quarter or perhaps 1/3rd, but no more – it needs room to expand), use an electric mixer or even whip by hand.  

I’ve tried it with a food processor but don’t recommend it.  It’s really fast, but the butter ends up in such tiny granules, it’s hard to drain.



Skip the salt until the end.  While whipping or shaking the cream, you’ll of course get whipped cream; just keep on going.  After a while it’ll suddenly separate into solid fats and buttermilk.  

When it’s done (you’ll know when you see it) pour it into a cloth lined colander over a bowl – keep that liquid!  Gently squeeze out as much liquid as you can (if you can, pull up the ends of the cloth and hang it over the bowl to drain for a while, as if you were making cheese), then rinse the butter in cold water several times.  
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Raised Bed Gardening…Our Progress to Date

Posted on March 6, 2011 by admin

Good morning guys! How’s everybody doing this fine Sunday morning? I hope this finds everyone well, and if so, well, go get your readin’ glasses and let’s see what’s going on today in the Coverin’ the Bases section of…Ridin’ Out the Recession…in Miz Judi’s Kitchen!

Before we get started, I’d like to ask our readers a question this morning. If you’ve watched some of our videos, maybe you’ve seen “Tillin’ the Garden… Dale and the Law.”

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Reader Comments for Coverin’ the Bases:

Posted on March 6, 2011 by admin

From: Craig
Hey Dub,

I must say, I’ve learned a few things from you in the short time I’ve been reading your articles.  For example, I did finally find a cast iron skillet a couple of years ago.  Always wanted one, but all I could find were these pans with the Teflon coating.  What I didn’t understand was the need to season the pan.  So, a few days ago I wiped a bit of olive oil on the pan and put it in the oven.  I used it for the first time this morning scrambling 18 eggs!  Amazing how easily it cleans up now.  And the 18 eggs?  They are all now in my dehydrator for the big experiment of making powdered eggs.  I learned through this that with the 4 trays I can do 18 eggs at a time.  I dug out and cleaned up the blender.  After I see how this turns out, I’m going to try the same thing with cheddar cheese.

I’ll let you know how it turns out.  There is a local real estate lady near here who lives in the country and has hens.  She wants to know how to do this.  Don’t know for sure, but this might be a source of cheaper eggs if she can’t handle them all.  She says they don’t lay a lot in winter but in the summer they lay a lot.
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Chicken Green Bean Casserole, Hearty Potato and Ham Chowder

Posted on March 4, 2011 by admin

We’ve shared our daughter-in-law Shelly Mae’s recipes with you guys before. She dropped off a cookbook from the Church she attends to Dub and I. This morning we’ll share two of these with you, as well as, kudos to “the chefs!”
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Our Children:

Posted on March 4, 2011 by admin

Welcome back to Miz Judi’s Kitchen. I hope all are doing well today. Thank you for coming back to visit with us once again.

Our Children:

I know I talked about our kids in my column before last, but I feel we all might want to spend more time talking on the subject of our children, so let’s do some of this today. Please become involved if you’d like.

We’ve had a couple of comments in the past few days that frankly, have weighed on Dub and I pretty heavily, the subject…our children and our grandchildren. It literally is heartbreaking to read other’s comments concerning their children.
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